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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

How about instead of punishing "the poor" with new taxes we just made healthy food cheaper.

How about actually giving people the time to actually prepare a healthy meal.

No one wants to spend 30mins to an hour cooking a good meal when they only get 4 hours of time to themselves a day. Reduce everyone's working hours and make them actually want to live a healthy life rather than treating them like consumables to be used up by businesses and replaced with their offspring.

This is exactly the kind of thing is expect from someone so far removed from the day to day reality of normal people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What if, instead of perpetuating the narrative of diet culture and "healthy food" vs. "junk food", we worked harder to provide food for those who actually need food. What if, and hear me out here, we educated people on making healthy decisions and more importantly, maintaining a healthy, positive relationship with food and their bodies?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't healthier eating more about convenience than education or anything else. If it's easier for people to eat healthy compared to eating unhealthy, they'll take that up.

Path of least resistance and all that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a good point, I hadn't considered that! Have a lovely day.

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